Quotes About Culture

I suppose I could still read Virgil or Sophocles with the help of a dictionary, but I do not do so, because it would give me no pleasure

The difference between a Northern fairy tale and a Southern one is... A Northern one starts 'once upon a time,' while a Southern one starts 'y'all ain't going to believe this shit.

Men today cannot claim their identity via culture because they are obliged to find other uninitiated males as their models or succumb to the empty values of a materialistic society. Again, before healing may begin, men must acknowledge the reality of what lies within. Among those confusing emotions is a deep grief for the loss of the personal father as companion, model and support, and a deep hunger for the fathers as a source of wisdom, solace and inspiration.

The transient vacuities of our cultural icons—success, peace, happiness, and distraction—pale before the question of whether or not one experiences this life as meaningful.

We live in a similarly shattered Weltanschauung where cultural distractions urgently seek to mask the demise of tribal mythologies, where sex, power, money are offered up as "connections" to replace the linking to the transcendent mythic images once granted.

We have an entire culture of addictive treatment plans, of sensate distraction, and of jejune impatience that is driven by the preference of security through unconsciousness as an antidote to growth.

As Jung pointed out, our ancestors believed in gods; we believe in vitamins—both invisible.

This search, this fantasy, is the chief fuel for our culture—the fantasy of romantic love, the fantasy that there is this other who will make our life work for us, heal us, protect us, nurture us, and spare us the world's trauma.

For myself, I always write about Dublin, because if I can get to the heart of Dublin I can get to the heart of all the cities of the world. In the particular is contained the universal.

When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets.

I seriously believe that you will retard the course of civilisation in Ireland by preventing the Irish people from having one good look at themselves in my nicely polished looking glass.

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Everything in Paris is gay, said Ignatius Gallaher. They believe in enjoying life--and don't you think they're right? If you want to enjoy yourself properly you must go to Paris. And, mind you, they've a great feeling for the Irish there. When they heard I was from Ireland they were ready to eat me, man.

It wounded him to think that he would never be but a shy guest at the feast of the world's culture.

We have the liberal arts and we have the useful arts.

Usher's Island

God, these bloody English! Bursting with money and indigestion. Because he comes from Oxford. You

But it's the life of Paris, that's the thing. Ah, there's no city like Paris for gaiety, movement, excitement...

postmodernism asserts the liberating insignificance of art

He had tales of distant countries.

In a mass culture, those few ideas or feelings unique to a person are easily deformed into conventional clichés: otherwise, everyone would be an artist.

O tribes! O gentes!)

She never blows her nose. A form of speech: the lesser for the greater.

their jaws grow large, and their lips grow coarse, like the poor Paddies who eat potatoes.